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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A huge statue.
  2. n. Something likened to a huge statue, as in size or importance: a colossus of bureaucracy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A statue of gigantic size; specifically (usually with a capital), the bronze statue of Apollo at Rhodes, which is said to have been 70 cubits high, and was reckoned among the seven wonders of the world. According to the popular fable, it stood astride the mouth of the port, so that ships sailed between its legs; but in fact it stood on one side of the entrance of the port. It was overthrown by an earthquake in 224 b. c., after standing about fifty-six years, and its fragments lay where they fell for nearly a thousand years.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome and the Colossus of Rhodes, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
  2. n. Any creature or thing of gigantic size.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.
  2. n. Any man or beast of gigantic size.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. someone or something that is abnormally large and powerful
  2. n. a person of exceptional importance and reputation

Etymologies

  1. From Latin colossus, from Ancient Greek κολοσσός (kolossos, "large statue, especially the colossus of Rhodes"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, from Greek kolossos. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • seanahan Vizzini: You were supposed to be this colossus. You were this great, legendary thing. And yet he gains. Feb 6, 2007

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